EVELYN TAUBEN
Producer . Curator . Writer
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A selection of curatorial projects

FENTSTER : A Window onto Jewish Life through Art Founder / Curator | 2016 - ongoing FENTSTER (Yiddish for "window") is an independent, artist-run exhibition space located in the storefront window of the grassroots Jewish community,  Ma

FENTSTER: A Window onto Jewish Life through Art

Founder / Curator | 2016 - ongoing

FENTSTER (Yiddish for "window") is an independent, artist-run exhibition space located in the storefront window of the grassroots Jewish community, Makom at 402 College Street in Toronto. Fentster presents rotating, site-specific installations of contemporary art connected to the Jewish experience.

Pictured: A Place for Wholesome Amusement by Shellie Zhang, 2018

Past exhibiting artists include Simon Glass, Bernice Eisenstein, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Evan Tapper, Lynne Heller, Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, Robert Davidovitz, Jess Riva Cooper and a group of over 20 Muslim and Jewish women.

To view all past and current exhibitions, please visit: fentster.org

On the Doorposts Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, MI POLIN Combining photography, historic documentation and unique Jewish ritual objects, this original exhibition tells the story of MI POLIN’s remarkable project to preserve traces of mezuz

On the Doorposts

Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, MI POLIN

Combining photography, historic documentation and unique Jewish ritual objects, this original exhibition tells the story of MI POLIN’s remarkable project to preserve traces of mezuzot still found on doorposts across Poland, creating new art out of traces of the past.

October 31 to November 27, 2019

Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto

Curated together with Rachel Libman | Presented by FENTSTER, the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre and the Miles Nadal JCC.

For more information, click here

The Room in the Elephant A multi-disciplinary exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Benny Ferdman August 28 to September 3, 2018 Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto For a full project description, click here

The Room in the Elephant

A multi-disciplinary exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Benny Ferdman

August 28 to September 3, 2018

Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

For a full project description, click here

Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling the Mandala Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France / Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Melissa Shiff (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA) September 22 to December 4, 2011 Koff

Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling the Mandala

Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France / Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Melissa Shiff (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA)

September 22 to December 4, 2011
Koffler Gallery Off-Site | 80 Spadina Avenue

Click here to read the digital illustrated exhibition publication

The Postumous Landscape: Jewish Sites of Memory in Poland Today Photographs by David Kaufman October 2013 - March 2014 | Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum, Toronto To read the full illustrated exhibition guide, click here Pictured:

The Postumous Landscape: Jewish Sites of Memory in Poland Today

Photographs by David Kaufman

October 2013 - March 2014 | Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum, Toronto

To read the full illustrated exhibition guide, click here

Pictured: Overgrown gravestones, Miodowa St. Jewish Cemetery, Krakow, 2011